Journal of Rollo Lavius 2

Entry #421 - Thistle and the Vampires

(G421 08/08/2020 via Roll20 - AP, JF(GM)) WA70

[Fenrir and friends had returned from the Lost Shrine of Tamoachan.]

DAY 478 (23rd Kythorn)(June)

Spectre Island and Fenrir divvied up the loot. Once everything was sold to Random's shopkeeper they ended up with 16619.46 gold each! A nice little haul that.

From what I gather Dorette went back home, declaring that she had enough gold on her to become the Queen of Pedestal. I don't know if she was joking or not.

Wayney was also somewhat overcome by the amount of gold she was now in possession of and laughed that she might buy herself a castle, but then turning more serious she said she might see if she can use it to get Mr Rattles back from Nexelmode and resurrect him.

Cavu gave Fenrir seven shards, that had come to him from Random in the FAMP. He briefly explained to him that they were very powerful spells, but like scrolls they could only be used once.

After going over their plans again (although when Fenrir and Cavu get together I can imagine they soon fall into talking about Waterdeep gossip), Fenrir headed home to his townhouse in Westgate.

There, he and Raz discussed how he would be best presented to Westgate society (in his quest to marry Thisle Thalavar!) and decided this:

''

They say lowborn on his mother's side, but in Westgate investigating his father's side for possible highborn connections.

''

It was a decent enough ruse, Raz's mother had been a fighter, a sort of knight attached to a barbarian lord's retinue, so a powerful women in her own right, no just some scullery maid.

But she was lowborn, that much was true.

And Raz's father was highborn, that was also true, but what was not true was that they already knew who he was - the late Lord Argaunt Thalavar. The only problem I could think of that it was a story that invited questions, but otherwise it was good, like all good lies it had some truth to it.

Of course, revealing too early he was the bastard son of Lord Argaunt Thalavar (and a potential heir to the throne of Westgate) would land him in big trouble and most likely a target for arrest or assassination.

Remember, dear reader, this is my old pal Raz we are talking about, from back in Sasserine and the Sea Wyvern, the same fellow that smeared his own shit over my harpsichord keys and who used to smell and laugh at his own farts.

So I can only imagine Fenrir did the best with the material he had. It takes a life-time to breed a gentleman and Raz would never be that. What he could be was a 'visiting dignitary' though - someone 'important' that had to be 'humoured' if they did anything out of turn.

Westgate was a large port city, so was used to the strange ways of foreigners so between them they worked out what sort of show they would put on for the nobles when they met them.

They would get their chance the next night, as a Solstice dance would be on, in the fields outside the city, an ancient tradition that welcomed the lowborn and highborn alike.

Thistle Thalavar would be there.

The last thing Fenrir did before retiring for the night was talk to Gelly and ask her about the bards she had hired.

'Well!' she declared. 'The Bards died!'

She'd not dug into it (out of fear) but said she would and get back to him. She also mentioned that there was 'trouble in Dockward' over the death of Sweetpea.